#solving

Solving a problem for which you know there’s an answer is like climbing a mountain with a guide, along a trail someone else has laid. In mathematics, the truth is somewhere out there in a place no one knows, beyond all the beaten paths. And it’s not always at the top of the mountain. It might be in a crack on the smoothest cliff or somewhere deep in the valley. ↗

— Yōko Ogawa

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- Why are you drinking? - the little prince asked. - In order to forget - replied the drunkard. - To forget what? - enquired the little prince, who was already feeling sorry for him. - To forget that I am ashamed - the drunkard confessed, hanging his head. - Ashamed of what? - asked the little prince who wanted to help him. - Ashamed of drinking! - concluded the drunkard, withdrawing into total silence. And the little prince went away, puzzled. 'Grown-ups really are very, very odd', he said to himself as he continued his journey. ↗

— Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

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I think seeing some of the past can be helpful, especially if you're into crime solving. ↗

— Yancy Butler

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We're resolving our differences and we're looking forward to putting out a record next year. ↗

— Brad Delson

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The release of atomic energy has not created a new problem. It has merely made more urgent the necessity of solving an existing one. ↗

— Albert Einstein

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I hope that seeing the excitement of solving this problem will make young mathematicians realize that there are lots and lots of other problems in mathematics which are going to be just as challenging in the future. ↗

— Andrew Wiles

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We have no hope of solving our problems without harnessing the diversity, the energy, and the creativity of all our people. ↗

— Roger Wilkins

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Investigation may be likened to the long months of pregnancy, and solving a problem to the day of birth. To investigate a problem is, indeed, to solve it. ↗

— Mao Zedong

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Creating something is all about problem-solving. ↗

— Philip Seymour Hoffman

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I think the next best thing to solving a problem is finding some humor in it. ↗

— Frank A. Clark

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